The 2020 general election: a gender analysis

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dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorGalligan, Yvonne
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-27T11:32:09Z
dc.date.available2020-05-27T11:32:09Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-13
dc.description.abstractThe February 2020 general election will be remembered as the “change” election, when the two dominant parties of Irish politics, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, trailed behind Sinn Féin in voters' preferences for the first time. However, for the gender balance of Irish politics, much remained unchanged. While the number of women elected to Dáil Éireann increased by one, this marginal growth since the 2016 general election was deemed a disappointment by analysts and advocates alike. A review of candidacy reveals that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael lag behind other parties in terms of the proportion of women selected and rely on the 'add-on' route to shore up their female candidacy base. The success rates of female candidates were markedly lower than those of their male counterparts in the Labour party, Greens, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. However, the election was a good outing for women in the Social Democrats and Sinn Féin, and especially for Mary Lou McDonald, who became the first woman to lead a party to top-spot in an Irish general election. The legislative gender quota continued to play an integral role in ensuring a critical mass of women were selected to contest the general election. In many respects, 2020 was a consolidation election for the gender quota as it fits-in and integrates into party candidate selection processes. Yet, with just 22.5% of the seats in Dáil Éireann occupied by women, the legislative gender quota should be viewed as the start rather than the culmination of efforts to support women's candidacy and election.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationBuckley, F. and Galligan, Y. (2020) ‘The 2020 general election: a gender analysis’, Irish Political Studies. doi: 10.1080/07907184.2020.1762283en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07907184.2020.1762283en
dc.identifier.eissn1743-9078
dc.identifier.issn0790-7184
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Political Studiesen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10066
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledge - Taylor & Francis Groupen
dc.rights© 2020, Political Studies Association of Ireland. Published by Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an item published by Taylor & Francis in Irish Political Studies on 13 May, 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2020.1762283en
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subject2020 general electionen
dc.subjectCandidatesen
dc.subjectGender quotaen
dc.titleThe 2020 general election: a gender analysisen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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